#1- I hung out with friend Monday, talked to 2 friends on the phone yesterday and jogged with another friend today. I'm having a good friend week. (This is after the end of my last weekend when I thought - even as an introvert I've had enough time alone!!)
#2 - I have a new family that I had the 2nd home visit today. The mom is bilingual but the primary language of the home is Spanish so we've mostly been doing the visits in Spanish. The accent is easy for me to understand (Mexican) and there is no pressure, because we can switch to English when I don't know something (though I hope we mostly continue to work with the child in Spanish!)
#3 - An older child was home today as there was no school and I have never seen a more supportive older sibling (the child in the program is a special needs child).
#4 - I'm going speed dating on Saturday and after asking multiple single people to accompany I finally found someone else to join. (I didn't actually ask her, I just told her about it and she asked me to send the info and then decided to sign up.)
#5 - "The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of our activity, neutralizes our work for peace. It destroys our own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our own work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom, which makes work fruitful." - Thomas Merton
